Deleuze in the postcolonial

On nomads and indigenous politics

Bibliographic Data

ID4367365
AuthorsJulie Wuthnow (University of Canterbury)
Year2002
Volume3
Issue2
Pages183-200
Publication date2002-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700102003002344
OpenAlexW2038124813
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited25

This article examines the implications of the Deleuzian concept of `nomad thought' within the context of postcoloniality and indigenous politics. I argue that Deleuze's deconstruction of coherent and self-identical subjectivity through this concept disallows the possibility of effective indigenous politics through its lack of accountability to a `politics of location', its implicit reproduction of a universalized western subject, and its delegitimation of `experience' and `local knowledge'. I investigate these dynamics in Deleuze's work, and also in deployments of the Deleuzian figure of the nomad and of `nomad thought' by Rosi Braidotti and Paul Patton. As a counterpoint to Deleuze, I discuss a number of feminist and postcolonial writers who recuperate concepts such as `experience' and `local knowledge', yet without lapsing into essentializing discourses. Their work enables robust versions of indigenous politics, and it is by adopting such approaches that feminist and postcolonial theory can move forward in politically accountable ways

Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Counterpoint · Deconstruction (building · Epistemology · Indigenous · Political science · Political subjectivity · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Computer Science · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy

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